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ABOUT TORNABUONI ART FOCUS

In this page, Concetto spaziale. Attesa by Lucio Fontana. Page 67, Alighiero Boetti exhibition at Tornabuoni Art, 2017. Founded in Florence in 1981 by Roberto Casamonti, in the street that gave

the gallery its name, Tornabuoni opened other exhibition spaces in Crans-
Montana in 1993, Milan in 1995, Forte Dei Marmi in 2004, Paris in 2009,

and London in 2015.

Specialising in post-war Italian art, the gallery presents the work In addition to presenting a dynamic schedule of exhi-
of artists such as Fontana, Burri, Castellani, Bonalumi, Boetti, Scheg- bitions, the gallery collaborates with renowned curators to
gi, and Manzoni. Tornabuoni Art also has a permanent collection of present museum quality surveys and is extremely invested in
significant works by major 20 century Italian artists such as de Chi- museums projects. Through the recurring loan of works, Tor-
th
rico, Morandi, Balla and Severini, as well as international avantgar- nabuoni Art has been contributing to major museum exhibi-
de masters, including Picasso, Mirò, Kandinsky, Hartung, Poliakoff, tions at the MoMA and the Met in New York, the Tate Modern
Dubuffet, Lam, Matta, Christo, Wesselmann, Warhol, and Basquiat. in London, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, as well as the Musée
Complementing its focus on Italian art, the Tornabuoni Art collection d’Art Moderne and the Centre Pompidou of Paris and Metz,
also features the work of young contemporary artists, such as the Ita- the Museo del 900 in Milan, and the MAMM in Moscow,
lian artist Francesca Pasquali and the Italy-based Armenian artist among many others.
Mikayel Ohanjanyan, who, along with the Armenian pavilion, won The gallery also works closely with artists’ estates and in-
the Golden Lion at the 2015 Venice Biennale. stitutions, including the Fondazione Burri Collezione Palaz-
Tornabuoni Art’s experience and knowledge of the work of the zo Albizzini and the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice for a
“Minimal” art in Italy is perceived as a response to the chaos of the social artists it represents has also enabled the gallery to establish itself major retrospective on Alberto Burri’s work, during the 2019
and political context of these years that materialized in rigorous and as an advisor for both private and public collections, and to build a Venice Biennale and the Alighiero Boetti: Minimum/ Maximum
reputation for its dedication to Italian art and support of visionary exhibition during the 2017 Venice Biennale.
essential forms, in a will to return to zero. artistic projects worldwide.

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